Category: Youth Employment

There are many benefits to volunteering if you’re a student; the most obvious: completing those required hours for graduation. However, if you’re part of a service organization like I am – National Honor Society for example – volunteering becomes more than just required hours. Remember, the most rewarding part of volunteering is realizing it’s not […]

On Saturday, November 17th at With Love Cafe, we graduated our 3rd round of Knit Marketing Interns, Haydee Calderon and Ricky Rodriguez. They completed 12-weeks of on-the-job training and prepared presentations about everything they learned during their internships. As seems to be the knintern trend, Ricky and Haydee far exceeded our expectations! We invited friends […]

It’s already been 2 years since Knit Marketing began recruiting for our first summer interns and we are ready for round 3! If you (or someone you know) are a teen looking for part-time summer work, interested in learning more about web marketing, now is your chance to apply to be a vital part of […]

Intro: As a few of our team members started their Freshmen year in college, we thought it was only appropriate to share some back to school wisdom – for high school and college students. Here, Yesenia shares all about the extracurriculars that make going to school so much more worth it. From personal experience, I […]

Intro: On September 2nd, we hosted a graduation for our summer interns. They were tasked with presenting a summary of what they learned through their 12-week internship with Knit Marketing. Jorge put together a very creative presentation in the theme of a Nintendo video game which jumped to a “new world” at the end of […]

Intro: On September 2nd, we hosted a graduation for our summer interns. They were tasked with presenting a summary of what they learned through their 12-week internship with Knit Marketing. Yesenia shared this video that she created, drew, and narrated telling the story of her summer with Knit. Our guests were blown away by her […]

Intro: At Knit, it’s our mission to help young people succeed in careers and college. While we’d love to be able to offer every teenager in LA a job at Knit Marketing, we’ll start by providing resources that will help regardless of where they end up. Earlier this summer, Robin Borough wrote a great how-to […]

Intro: If the name of our guest blogger sounds familiar, that’s because Robin is Rebecca’s mom! She also happens to be an expert in helping people land their dream jobs. Because Knit Marketing’s mission is all about creating job opportunities, we asked her to share her wisdom to our team and any other young person […]

“A paid job is the exact opposite of supervised transcript fodder like volunteer experiences and internships. In a paid job, the teen is often working for adults, so she has to cater to them. The adult pays the teen to show up on time, do what is asked of her and more, dress appropriately, be respectful, […]